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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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Drivers need to 'grow up'
By DIANE JOYCE
'
We don't kill them one at
a time in this district, we do
it in fours.
'
Freddy van Duuren
BEST AND WORST
Safest districts to drive in, based on 2012 figures:
No deaths: Kawerau, Lower Hutt, Masterton, Carterton, South
Wairarapa, Kaikoura, Chatham Islands.
One death: Otorohanga, Tauranga, Napier, Stratford, Upper Hutt,
Buller, Timaru, Queenstown-Lakes, Gore.
Most unsafe districts to drive in, based on 2012 figures:
Auckland (41 deaths), Waikato (24), Gisborne (10), Hastings (10),
Taupo (9), South Taranaki (9), Ruapehu (9), Selwyn (9).
The chances of dying on Hawke's
Bay roads are high compared with
other New Zealand regions,
whichever way the figures are
read -- and it is not a statistical
blip.
The New Zealand Transport
Agency has released provisional
2012 road-death figures.
Last year 10 people died on
Hastings roads and one in Napier,
about the same as in the four pre-
ceding years.
All of the East Coast fared
badly with 10 people dying on Gis-
borne roads, seven in Wairoa and
three in Central Hawke's Bay.
Either people were not getting
road-safety messages or were
choosing to ignore them, said
Senior Sergeant Freddy van
Duuren.
It's the same old, same old.
Drink-driving, not wearing
seatbelts, driving too fast, driving
poorly on roads not built for the
way people drive.''
He said police were doing all
they could and most people drove
safely.
But there's some who think
they're immune.
The worst thing is we don't kill
them one at a time in this district,
we do it in fours.''
In the last five years an average
of nine people were killed annu-
ally on Hastings roads.
Trying to find some good news
in the figures is not easy.
Hastings district is third equal
with Gisborne for number of
deaths by council district, beaten
only by Auckland with 41 and
Waikato with 24. Comparing
Hastings with other areas with
similar populations puts the
district at the top of the pack,
while deaths per head of popu-
lation gives some relief, putting it
28th out of 67 districts.
Per head of population, Wairoa
is the worst performer in New
Zealand with one death for every
1193 people.
Mr van Duuren said drivers had
to grow up ...Wecould become
a police state, constantly putting
people through checks but in the
end there has to be some personal
responsibility.''
Pageant: Visiting Wellington university student, 19-year-old Zarae Davis, left, caused a bit of a boilover when she upset a host of local lasses, including Napier girls Macey Paterson, 17, centre,
and Kristen Witkowski, 16, to win the 2013 Miss Waimarama crown at the More FM Waimarama Beach Day on Sunday. The perfect beach-going weather attracted thousands to the annual
beach day celebration, a fundraiser for Waimarama Surf Lifesaving Club. Hawke's Bay was probably the hottest spot in the country on Sunday, with Napier airport (33.4C) and Hastings (32.5C)
recording the two highest air temperatures in New Zealand on the day, according to the Metservice website. For more see page 11.
Photo: CLINTON LLEWELLYN
Beach belles